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December 2007

ABN AMRO: IMPROVING COLLECTIONS PRODUCTIVITY BY MORE THAN 70%
As part of the bank-wide project to overhaul the credit and risk systems following implementation of the Basel II programme, the bank recognised that the collections operation could make a significant contribution to improving impairment levels and managing provisioning levels...
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DUNFERMLINE BUILDING SOCIETY CHOOSES HUNTER
Dunfermline Building Society is Scotland's largest building society. Following a comprehensive review of fraud tools available in the market, the decision was taken to select Experian’s Hunter fraud prevention solution...
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CLARIMA BANCA MANAGES CREDIT CYCLE WITH EXPERIAN
Experian has signed a global agreement to implement its suite of core solutions to manage the complete credit cycle in the European operations of Clarima Banca, the consumer finance subsidiary of Unicredit Group Italy...

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DATA REPORTING WITH GRAMEEN AMERICA
Grameen America, Inc., a newly formed New York-based microfinance company, has announced that it has established a unique data reporting relationship with Experian...
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A NEW CREDIT BUREAU IN NIGERIA WITH CREATIVE
Creative Telecoms & Technologies has signed an agreement for Experian to supply its proprietary software to establish a credit reference database and bureau service in Nigeria...
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CONNECT BUSINESS GOALS TO EACH AND EVERY CUSTOMER DECISION
Imagine if you could directly connect the objectives and goals of the organisation to each and every customer decision you make... and get a performance improvement too. Whether that goal be profit, economic profit, shareholder value or simply portfolio bad debt...
by Adrian Carr, Senior Optimisation Consultant, Decision Analytics, Experian
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CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT FOR RETAIL BANKING
Bank profitability is driven by revenue, costs and bad debt losses whilst maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance. All of these are directly influenced by the daily decisions made in managing relationships with customers...
by Matthew Dodd, Product Director, Customer Management, Decision Analytics, Experian
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TACKLING THE ISSUE OF BUST-OUT FRAUD
Imagine you work in a retail bank where you have responsibility for new business. You have decisioning systems, fraud controls and credit bureau links and you feel confident you can protect yourself against customers who could expose your organisation to every type of risk...
by Anthony Sumner, Principal Consultant, Decision Analytics, Experian
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TALLYMAN NEWS – BARCLAYS, SAMBA AND A NEW VERSION
Two leading banks have recently selected Tallyman to manage the repayments of consumer debts. The UK retail banking operation of Barclays Bank, and Samba Financial Group, Saudi Arabia’s leading bank, have both introduced Tallyman in order to adopt the most effective and proven techniques for ensuring that provisioning and bad debt write-offs are minimised.
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FRAUD… A HOT TOPIC

Fraud is a hot topic in the media at the minute. Never before has fraud been written, talked about and debated as much as in recent months. Fraud is a truly global problem. In the world of multiple transaction channels, the fraudster can attack your organisation at many levels...

by Gary Wood, Managing Director Fraud and Identity Solutions, Decision Analytics, Experian

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HOW DID THE US SUBPRIME DOWNTURN IMPACT THE UK & EUROPE?

Following the widespread losses made by investors in loans to US homebuyers with poor credit history, the so-called subprime loans, investors became wary of buying any mortgage debt, including that of Northern Rock, and the bank struggled to raise money to finance its lending as the money markets seized up over the summer...

by Sam Archer, Head of UK Mortgages, Decision Analytics, Experian

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BASEL II: IS YOUR RATING SYSTEM WORKING?

With the introduction of the New Capital Accord (Basel II), the banking industry has had to comply with requirements for more robust risk management practices. Our approach to validation is to match carefully quantitative tools and statistical measures to the type of model being assessed...

by Victoria Carr, Senior Business Consultant, Decision Analytics, Experian

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EXPERIAN DECISION ANALYTICS FORUM - VENICE, ITALY
The annual international Experian Decision Analytics Forum took place in Venice in October, and saw clients from 35 countries meet to learn about new analytics initiatives and product and software developments. The event also featured case studies from external guests from esteemed international organisations. Look our for the next issue of e-news, which will be dedicated to topics discussed and presentations given at the Forum...
 
EXPERIAN DECISION ANALYTICS CLIENT FORUM 2008 - NOTTINGHAM, UK
We are pleased to announce an exciting new event for 2008. The Experian Decision Analytics Client Forum 2008 brings together our UK clients with Strategy Management, Hunter and Tallyman into a single forum. The event takes place in Nottingham, UK, on Thursday 6 March...
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HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE THE CREDIT RISK IN RUSSIA AND CIS
The fourth edition of the Moscow Credit Risk Seminar held by Experian’s Decision Analytics division took place at the beginning of December. Over 150 managers from key financial organisations from Russia, Kazakhastan, Ukraine, Moldova and Japan gathered to learn about successful credit risk strategies...
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MEFTEC 08 - THE MIDDLE EAST BANKING & FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY EVENT, BAHRAIN
The 2007 event was the largest in the series to date, with over 700 delegates from 27 countries. Experian will once again be present at MEFTEC and will have a stand and a guest speaker...
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